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Tag: Emergent Church

  • Nearer, My God, to the G.O.P.

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    Nearer, My God, to the G.O.P. is a piece by Joseph Loconte in the New York Times. I like this guy's perspective. A couple of key quotes: "'We affirm God's vision of a good society offered to us by the prophet Isaiah,' he [Jim Wallis] writes. Yet Isaiah, an agent of divine judgment living in…

  • Dying for the Church Emergent (Emergent, Part 9)

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    When most people think of "Emergent Church," they often think of young adults worshiping together at candle-lit services and having deep conversations about postmodern epistemological issues. No doubt, this is a slice of the Emergent Church. However, when I think of Emergent Church, I think of something much broader. George Barna has just published a…

  • Emergent (Part 5)

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    I have written about my Meyers-Briggs NT Rationalist experience in the church in the last two posts. I have also speculated that the number of N.F. Idealists alienated from Evangelical institutions are probably greater than the number of N.T.s. Where did these alienated intuitive types go? Some of these types departed Evangelical institutions and started…

  • Emergent (Part 4)

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    Yesterday I wrote that the Emergent Church seems heavily populated by Meyers Briggs intuitive types. I differentiated them this way: “Sensing types are highly observant of the factual details around them. Intuitive types are introspective as they scan the environment for patterns of organization.” Sensing types tend to value words like sensible, practical, realistic, and…